Janis Goodman
I produce detailed monochrome etchings of birds, landscape and urban configurations. My prints are preoccupied with the repetitive patterns formed by the built environment and how these contrast with the organic forms of plants and birds. The choice of subject matter is more visceral than intellectual – I get the feeling that a specific collection of shapes is the one I wish to reassemble. My prints illustrate a sideways glance at the world. I am attracted to the unusual in the midst of the everyday. I try to avoid sentimentality but aim to focus on the quirky and the irregular.